When I went through my syllabus for one of my courses this semester, my jaw dropped. "Homework will be 40 percent of your grade." After the first shock, I started to giggle and thought of something my friends and I used to say...

More than 700 inmates are awaiting their sentences on death row in California. They have one cell each and a higher level of security than other inmates. Through the crimes they committed, their lives or deaths were put in the...